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    "id": 942302,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/942302/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso North, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Oku Kaunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13488,
        "legal_name": "Edward Oku Kaunya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion in Order No.12 on the Policy Measures to Ensure 100 Per Cent Transition from Secondary Education to Tertiary Education. I support the Motion by Hon. John Wambugu. It is timely and quite critical especially at a time when we are looking at middle income or developed status as a country. This Motion seeks to develop policies. The policies should look at how we can fund and equip technical and vocational training institutions. We need to equip the institutions that have been developed. We need to also develop others and make sure that the skills that are imparted after secondary school are useful to our community and can foster development; especially with the focus on one of the Big Four Agenda, which is manufacturing. We need these skills. This Motion will make a difference. The policy should also focus on school fees-financing. Most of the children who qualify to go to the post-secondary school institutions are still unable to access education. They are unable to access it because most of them can’t afford school fees. Again, these institutions are very far from their places of residence. The policy should provide for free access to education. It means the Government should pay the fees and provide adequate financing to ensure that all the children who qualify proceed to acquire the skills. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when this policy is developed, it should take care of apprenticeship, for example..."
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